Posted 11:33AM EST, August 18, 2008
Florida adds health care inspection report search
The Agency for Health Care Administration in Florida released a website that allows the search of healthcare facilities' inspection records.
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Last week the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) created a search of healthcare facility inspection records. ihealthbeat reports that the reports available will be current and future documents, with only limited release of past documents:
Sources: AHCA, ihealthbeat.
Previously, Florida residents had to make a formal public records request to obtain such information.On the web: http://ahcaxnet.fdhc.state.fl.us/dm_web
Florida will post all reports written after June 1, as well as a few older ones, but does not plan to post reports from past years, according to Molly McKinstry, chief of long-term care at the state Agency for Health Care Administration.
Sources: AHCA, ihealthbeat.